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Materials Science · Physics 2010-06-29 P. N. Romanets , F. T. Vasko , M. V. Strikha

The phonon thermal transport properties of eight ternary intermetallic semiconductors are investigated by accounting for higher-order four-phonon scattering, phonon renormalization, and multi-channel thermal transport. The commonly used…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-17 Ankit Jain

While phonon topology in crystalline solids has been extensively studied, its influence on thermal transport-especially in nanostructures-remains elusive. Here, by combining first-principles-based machine learning potentials with the phonon…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhe Su , Shuoran Song , Qi Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

Thermal conductivities $\Lambda $ of amorphous carbon thin films are measured in the temperatures range 80--400 K using the $3\omega $ method. Sample films range from soft a-C:H prepared by remote-plasma deposition ($\Lambda = 0.20$ W…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 Andrew J. Bullen , Keith E. O'Hara , David G. Cahill , Othon Monteiro , Achim von Keudell

Due to the long range interaction in lead telluride (PbTe), the transverse optical (TO) phonon becomes soft around the Brillouin zone center. Previous studies have postulated that this zone-center softening causes the low thermal…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Shenghong Ju , Takuma Shiga , Lei Feng , Junichiro Shiomi

Phonon transport of recently-fabricated $\mathrm{Na_2He}$ at high pressure is investigated from a combination of first-principles calculations and the linearized phonon Boltzmann equation within the single-mode relaxation time approximation…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-05-24 San-Dong Guo , Ai-Xia Zhang

We present a novel approach for computing the surface roughness-limited thermal conductivity of silicon nanowires with diameter D < 100 nm. A frequency-dependent phonon scattering rate is computed from perturbation theory and related to a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Pierre Martin , Zlatan Aksamija , Eric Pop , Umberto Ravaioli

We describe Raman spectroscopy based method of measuring thermal conductivity of thin films, and review significant results achieved with this technique pertinent to graphene and other two-dimensional materials. The optothermal Raman method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Hoda Malekpour , Alexander A. Balandin

In this work, we explore the origin and type of charge carriers, and their transport mechanism in polycrystalline barium-iron-niobate (BFN, BaFe$_{0.5}$Nb$_{0.5}$O$_3$) ceramics, at lower temperatures between 20K and 300K. The observed…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-11 Vijay Khopkar , Balaram Sahoo

We present thermal measurements of large area (over $1,000$~$\mu$m$^2$) monolayer graphene samples at cryogenic temperatures to study the electron-phonon thermal conductivity of graphene. By using two large samples with areas which differ…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Christopher B. McKitterick , Michael J. Rooks , Daniel E. Prober

The authors proposed a simple model for the lattice thermal conductivity of graphene in the framework of Klemens approximation. The Gruneisen parameters were introduced separately for the longitudinal and transverse phonon branches through…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 D. L. Nika , S. Ghosh , E. P. Pokatilov , A. A. Balandin

By studying the temperature-dependent behavior of electron thermal conductivity (k) in a 3.2 nm-thin film, we quantify the extremely confined defect-electron scattering and reveal the intrinsic phonon-electron scattering that is shared by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-16 Zhe Cheng , Zaoli Xu , Shen Xu , Xinwei Wang

We investigate the basic charge and heat transport properties of charge neutral epigraphene at sub-kelvin temperatures, demonstrating nearly logarithmic dependence of electrical conductivity over more than two decades in temperature. Using…

We have investigated thermal conductivity of graphene laminate films deposited on polyethylene terephthalate substrates. Two types of graphene laminate were studied - as deposited and compressed - in order to determine the physical…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-11-21 H. Malekpour , K. -H. Chang , J. -C. Chen , C. -Y. Lu , D. L. Nika , K. S. Novoselov , A. A. Balandin

Acoustic phonons have recently been posited as playing an integral role in explaining the half-quantized thermal Hall effect in $\alpha$-RuCl$_3$. Therefore, we present much needed inelastic x-ray scattering measurements of its acoustic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-07-07 Blair W. Lebert , Subin Kim , Danil A. Prishchenko , Alexander A. Tsirlin , Ayman H. Said , Ahmet Alatas , Young-June Kim

Using calculations from first principles we have investigated the lattice thermal conductivity of ideal mono- and bi-layer graphene sheets. Our results demonstrate that the intrinsic thermal conductivity of both mono- and bi-layer graphene…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-02-05 B. D. Kong , S. Paul , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , K. W. Kim

We report our theoretical calculations on the temperature and energy dependent electrical conductivity of gapped graphene within the framework of Boltzmann transport formalism. Since screening effects have known to be of vital importance in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Digish K Patel , A C Sharma , S S Z Ashraf

Thermal properties of graphene monolayers are studied by path-integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) simulations, which take into account the quantization of vibrational modes in the crystalline membrane, and allow one to consider anharmonic…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-18 Carlos P. Herrero , Rafael Ramirez

The thermal conductance by phonons of a quasi-one-dimensional solid with isotope or defect scattering is studied using the Landauer formalism for thermal transport. The conductance shows a crossover from localized to Ohmic behavior, just as…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 P. G. Murphy , J. E. Moore